Railway-car.



F. A. DELANO.

4 RAILWAY CAR. APPLICATION HLED NOV 24. 1913.

' Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

n eased 1 showing my device applied to a car; and

FREDERIG A. DELANO, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RAILWAY-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. '7, 1916.

Application filed November 24, 1913; Serial No. 802,794.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, FREDERIC A. DELANO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Cars, of

' which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in railway passenger cars, and has for its chief object a provision of means to prevent telescoping of cars in event of collision.

In long passenger equipment cars, such as are used in America, the floor system,

whether built of wooden beams heavily tr ussed, or wooden beams reinforced with steel, or of steel beams, is by far the heaviest and strongest part of the car, and in event of a collision it frequently happens that one end of a car becomes tilted so that it slides either under or over the next car to it, thus causing two cars to telescope, resulting in great loss of life. There is no way of strengthening the side frame of the ear enough to prevent this, because, of necessity, the floor system will always be far stronger and heavier than the side frame. To eliminate this action I provide means on each car adapted to engage with the adjacent car ateither end to prevent relative rising beyond a slight amount of either car with respect to the other, thereby insuring the reception of the shock and stress of the collision by the comparatively strong car underframe. This 'and other objects are set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawing, in which -e- Figure 1 is a perspective end view of a common form of end vestibule "passenger car; Fig. 2 is "a longitudinal detail section Fig. 3 is a detail plan showing the interlockin relation of adjacent ends of two cars with my invention applied thereto.

Like numerals refer to like elements throiwhout the drawings, in which 10 esignates generally a modern type of car having the vestibule 11 and buffer plates 12. Stems 13 extend rearwardly from these buffer platesand coact with yieldable spring members 14 to resist the 'end shock or stress to which the car is ordinarily subjected.

- This is a well known and conventional form of construction, and does not form any part of my innention.

I preferably construct the buffer face plates with a plate portion 15 extending downwardly therefrom and coextensive with somewhat less than half the length of said buffer face plate and located on the right hand side of the same in the form shown. This plate portion terminates in the angularly disposed outwardly extending flange 15 for a purpose ,to be hereinafter described. The adjacent end of the car coupled to the one shown isprovided with a similar buffer face plate, the two plate members 15 and flanges 15 being relatively located, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to fit opposite each other when the buffer face plates are in contact.

It will be apparent that in the-construction shown when the cars are forced together. should the force to which they are subjected be the resultof a collision or the like, so long as 'one car floor is prevented from tilting up or down, over or under the a-diacent car the entire shock and stress will be borne by the underframe construction of the cars. I allow forthis by making these flanges 15 less than half the width of the buffer face-plate in this construction and my device will also permit a certain amount of relative up and down movement as well as lateral movement, as will be obvious from an examination of the drawing.

It will be apparent that while I have shown my invention as applied to a butter face plate, the appliance of the same will be varied according to the car structure with -which itis used: and I do not'wish to be and a forward proiect on on the lower portion of the o posite side thereof. said forward proiection being arranged to project beneath the'bufl'erplate of an ad acent car and prevent the rising and riding of one car over another.

2. In a car, a buffer plate. a downwardly extendin plate formed integrallv'with the said bufler plate along a portion of the lower edgethereof. said downwardlv extending plate having-its lower edge outwardlv turned to form a flange. said downwardly extending plate be ng oppositelv' disposed wi h reference to the c rresponding plate of an adiacent car wherehv the projecting flange of each downwardly. ex-

0Wc .-p0rti0n thereof recessed along sub- 3 stantially cue-half its length, and an out- .adly' projecting portion formed on the i 2;" edge 0f the remaining-3 pertion 0:" its length, said Gutwardly projecting portion amas? being adapted to enter'the recess formed in the buffer plate of an ad acent car and to engage sald last-named buffer plate to prevent the rising and riding of one car over anpther. in testlmony whereof, I have subscrlbed my name. v FREDERIO A. DELANO.

Witnesses HENRY A. PARKS, EDYTHE M. ANDERSON. 

